Strathclyde Police Lockerbie survey

• Reference:GB 254 MS 453
• Dates of Creation:1989
• Name of Creator:
  Margaret Mitchell
• Physical Description:
  1 crate

• Scope and Content

  Questionnaires completed by police and civilian personnel who attended the scene of the Lockerbie plane crash and who dealt with the aftermath. The idea was to assess reactions, provide support and improve contingency planning. Also included were questions for partners and people close to the person involved. The work was planned and developed by the then Chief Medical Officer De David McLay and Margaret Mitchell. There were several articles and papers written on the results of the survey. There are around 2,000-2,500 questionnaires

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Margaret Mitchell was Director of Research for the Police Research Unit at Glasgow Caledonian University from 1992-1999. She moved to Australia and taught policing at Charles Stuart University from 1999-2005. She then became Associate Professor and Director and the Sellenger Centre at Edith Cowan University. She published widely on policing, trauma and disasters.

• Arrangement

  Usually chronological within series.

• Access Information

  Open for consultation subject to preservation requirements. Access must also conform to the restrictions of the Data Protection Act (2018), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, 2018) and any other relevant legislation or restrictions. Clinical information is closed for 100 years.

• Note

  Margaret Mitchell was Director of Research for the Police Research Unit at Glasgow Caledonian University from 1992-1999. She moved to Australia and taught policing at Charles Stuart University from 1999-2005. She then became Associate Professor and Director and the Sellenger Centre at Edith Cowan University. She published widely on policing, trauma and disasters.

• Archivist's Note

  Description compiled by C Brown

• Conditions Governing Use

  Reproduction is available subject to preservation requirements. Charges may be made for this service, and copyright and other restrictions may apply; please check with the Duty Archivist.

• Custodial History

  Kept by Margaret Mitchell

• Accruals

  Not expected

• Additional Information

  Published

  Catalogued

  MS 453